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The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

eugène ionesco

— Victimes du Devoir [Victims of Duty] (1953)

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The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? Because one did survive the wreck.

Herman Melville

— Epilogue (Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851))

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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

seán o'casey

— Sunset and Evening Star (New York: Macmillan, 1954) p. 322.

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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.


— Samuel Johnson, Prologue. Spoken by Mr. Garrick on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. (1747) line 53.

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